I understand why certain people are against bidbots. But the question is who should you punish in such a case. It is similar to the prostitution argument. If you are against prostitution, the question is who is acting immoral, the prostitute, the John, or both?

Now prostitution is a difficult topic, but I think bidbots are not. Just ask who is making the profit. The ones buying their upvotes dont really make any money, they are just seeking some legit advertisement and the steem system for that is simply not working. The bidbot owner on the other hand is accepting money to judge content, which is fundamentally opposed to the idea of steem.

It is an illusion to think that you could downvote the users so much that they will stop using the bidbot, as most are actually unaware that this happens. So instead of targeting the users we should think how to target the operators instead.